[Nix-dev] On nixpkgs and reasonable code size

[zimbatm]

Related to the discussion, apparently even Debian has trouble keeping-up
with security updates:
https://statuscode.ch/2016/02/distribution-packages-considered-insecure/ It's
not a simple problem for sure.


On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 at 09:35 Adrien Devresse <Adev at adev.name> wrote:

> I think the inflow of PRs *is* high wrt. the number of active
> contributors with push access. Certainly too much to keep quality very
> high all the time, but on the other hand, for those less important
> packages it's not a big deal...
>
>
> The way the other distributions solved this issue is by distributing the
> responsabilities. A model where a little minority has to approve / validate
> the merge each package modification can not scale to a huge number of
> packages.
>
> If you look at the Fedora/Debian model, each package maintainer is
> responsible and has full commit access on their packages and only on their
> packages.  They do not need any merge,  excepted when they stabilize the
> unstable branch. This is quite similar to the way the Linux kernel
> development works in this respect.
>
>
> Adev~~
>
>
>
> Le 21/02/2016 21:39, Vladimír Čunát a écrit :
>
> On 02/21/2016 09:10 PM, Patrick Callahan wrote:
>
> Does anyone here know what other distros do to engage more
> developers+maintainers? Could we, among other things, organize some kind
> of drive to encourage more systematic contributions? Or is integrating
> all the current PRs too much work already for that to be helpful?
>
>
> Well, I think the number of contributors grows fast enough since we
> migrated to github:https://www.openhub.net/p/nixos/contributors/summary
>
> I think the inflow of PRs *is* high wrt. the number of active
> contributors with push access. Certainly too much to keep quality very
> high all the time, but on the other hand, for those less important
> packages it's not a big deal...
>
> --Vladimir
>
>
>
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